Troitsky

Troitsky Pyotr Vasilyevich (1873-1922), professor, prominent Russian therapist. After graduating from the Military Medical Academy (1897) he was retained at the clinic of Professor Sirotinin; in 1900 he defended his dissertation "On the pathogenesis of Basedow's disease" (St. Petersburg). In 1901, T. became assistant at the hospital therapeutic clinic of the Women's Medical Institute; in 1905, privat-docent in the department of internal diseases; in 1914, professor in the department of diagnostics at the Women's Medical Institute, and in 1920, professor at the hospital therapeutic clinic of the Military Medical Academy. From 1904, he simultaneously held the position of head of the therapeutic department in the former Peter and Paul Hospital. T. was also secretary of the "Society of Russian Physicians" in Leningrad. The central place in T's academic work was occupied by pedagogical activity. As a physician and lecturer, he was distinguished by a strict and extremely systematic analysis of the patient. The most important scientific works of T.: "On the question of heart hypertrophies" (1900); "On the pathology of nephritis" (1900); "Pathogenesis and treatment of Basedow's disease" (Russian Physician, Nos. 11-14, 1911); "Microscopic changes in the heart of rabbits under the influence of long-term use of small doses of digitalis" (Russian Physician, No. 38, 1912); "On the pathogenesis of round stomach ulcer" (1921).